I publish in roughly three areas: moral
psychology, Latin American
philosophy and Latinx philosophy, and philosophy
of law. I'm particularly interested
in the normative significance of moral responsibility and free
will, including the moral psychology piece of it that is
concerned with the relevance of work in the social and
cognitive sciences for our understanding of moral agency. Within
Latin American philosophy, I tend to focus on the history of
Mexican philosophy and some issues in metaphilosophy. Lately,
I've been thinking about those issues in relationship to the
newly emerging field of Latinx philosophy. In
philosophy of law, I'm primarily interested in questions of
methodology in jurisprudence and the philosophical foundations
of criminal law.

"Philosophy and the Folk: On Some Implications of Experimental
Work for Philosophical Debates on Free Will" The Journal of Cognition and
Culture 6: 1 & 2, (2006) 249-264.Abstract | Published
version (available through Igenta) | Prepublication PDF

"On the Importance of History for
Responsible Agency" Philosophical
Studies 127:3 (2006) 351-382. Abstract
| Published version (available at
Springerlink.com) | Prepublication
PDFReview of Personal
Autonomy:
New Essays on Personal Autonomy and its Role in Contemporary
Moral Philosophy, edited by James Stacey Taylor. Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
(August 21, 2006). Open access:Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews.

"Eurocentrism and the Philosophy of
Liberation" APA Newsletter
on Hispanic/Latino Issues Vol. 4, no. 2 (2005) 8-17.Winner
of the 2004 APA Prize in Latin American ThoughtAbstract
| Published
version | Prepublication PDF

I've also written some philosophy for a wider (i.e.,
non-specialist) audience. (Shhh— don't tell! Word on the street
is that this kind of thing might ruin any reputation I have for
being a Serious Scholar™.) One such bit of writing is a piece
for the Philosopher's
Magazine entitled "Responsibility's
Death By Neuroscience Has Been Greatly Exaggerated."

Less serious is the piece “Dead Serious: Evil and the Ontology
of the Undead” The Undead and Philosophy,
edited by Richard Greene & K. Silem Mohammad, Peru, IL: Open
Court Press (2006). [Now in a
second edition (2010)! With a new and evil-ish-er cover
& title!] A pre-publication draft can be found here. But really, you
should go and buy this landmark collection of philosophy, and
give a copy to every kid at Halloween. Alternately,
you can check out some of those thoughts in a presentation,
co-presented with Diego Nieto at NerdNiteSF, the week before
Halloween. You can witness all the horror of the talk here. A
further bit of popular-ish philosophical writing is "Are
Psychopathic Serial Killers Evil? Are They Blameworthy for What
They Do?" in Serial Killers and Philosophy,
ed. Sarah Waller (Blackwell, 2010). A prepublication draft can
be found here.

Long ago, I was on Philosophy Talk on March 8, 2009, talking
about free will. Check it out here.
A brief set of remarks on Latin American philosophy, as part of
a panel on Comparative Philosophy organized by Rasmus Winther at
UC Santa Cruz, can be found here.